194                  CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION PEARL HARBOR ATTACK

 

CONFIDENTIAL

 

Issuing Office: G‑2, H. H. D.

Army Contact Office

Honolulu T. H.

Date: 17 October 1941.

 

SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT

 

Subjects:        New Japanese Premier

Hideki or Eiki Tojo

 

Lieutenant General; Director General of Military Aviation. Born December 1884, Tokyo. Graduate Military Staff College 1915; Attaché Germany, 1919, instructor Military Staff College, 1922 ; Chief of Mobilization Section; Commander Infantry 1st Regiment; Sectional Chief General Staff Officer; Commander 24th Infantry Brigade, 1934‑35; Commander Gendarmerie Headquarters and Chief Police Affairs Department of Kwantung Army, 1937; War Vice‑Minister, May 1938‑December 1938; Minister of War since December 1938.

Tojo stressed the exaltation of the cardinal principles of the so‑called war‑time cabinet for both the army and navy on 18 July 141.

An interesting analysis of the new Japanese cabinet (Konoye) was made by Miss Kasuko Higuchi of Hilo, a keen student of Japanese government affairs who returned recently from Japan. According to her, "The War Minister is a conservative among the members of the army clique".

Commenting on the appointment of Tojo as premier, a local news article stated that he is a conservative.

 

GEORGE W. BICKNELL,

Lt. Colonel, G. S. C.,

Asst. A. C. of S., G‑2,

Contact Officer.

 

 

Distribution

C/S H. H. D.

G‑2, H. H. D.

G‑2, H. A. F.

G‑2, Schofield Barracks (3 copies)

G‑1, H. H. D.

F. B. I., Honolulu

O. N. I., Honolulu (2 copies)